The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-10
In the Annals OF New York's Labor
TrOubles-Pennsylyania Miners
Resume Work.

there are STA freight handlers and
longshoremen idle in New York City
as a result of the strike. Two weeks
ago these men had steady employ
ment at good wages. Most OF these
lsborers will never regain the places
they left at the command of the
Knights of Labor. The advertiser
estimates the losses in wages to the
striking freight handlers and long
shoremen to date at about $2l0, 900,
and says: eff the longshoremen were
to be granted tomorrow the demand
for increase OF wages which they made
the pretext of their strike it would
take more than four months of steady
work for them TO regain what they
have already lost"
Work Resumed On the River Front.
New YoFK, Feb uary 9.-Except for
the number of long shorsmen standing
idle on the corners, the streets along
the river fronts have assumed almost
their normal appearance. Though it
requires lager number Of men to do
the work now than formerly, the
steamboat and railroad pier managers
all claim that business is es good as
before the strike, an that freight is
being moved with the utmost facility.
Steamers now leave at the advertised
time, and the jam of freight on the
railroad piers no longer exists. At the
Mallory dock and the Clyde Line
dock, on the East river, where they
are in the habit of clearing one or
more steamers per day, there mas bsen
a decided improvement. AT the lat
ter dock the City of Atlanta came up
yesterday, and this morning she WAS
almost discharged. The pier master
on the Mallory dock said he had
seven of the strikers at wo k,
but was unable, however, to point
them out. Two delegates from the
Knights OF Labor met Henry and J.T.
Maxwell, the representatives of Presi-
dent Corbin, of the Reading railroad,
this morning, but without arriving at
any satisfactory results. The ques-
ton of calling out the Knights of La
Dor on the Reading road is still open,
and may be ordered within two days
Mr.. Oorbin's offer of a compromise
having been refused. The Knights OF
Labor insist on a general settlement,
and intimate that new strikes will
soon be tlken to bring it about. The
striking longshoremen employed by
the Ward Steamship Line returned to
work today at the old terms.
For two hours this morning West
street, from the Battery TO Cortland
street, was jammed with truckloads of
merchandise. On the Pennsylvania,
Jersey Central, Metropolitan Line to
Boston, and the Delaware and Lacka-
wanna piers, immense amounts of
freight were received which had been
delayed through the operations OF the
strike. The new men are doing we'll.
The strikers stand around watching
them. LIST of them in conversation
admit that they would be glad to get
back 10 work.
At the Mallory Line pier full gangs of
men were working. The supsrinten-
dent said that he mad not taken any of
the old hands back. He said that ssv-
enty i've old hands were on the corner
nearby waiting to be asked to go back
to work, but be would not take them
back. Those who were taken back
made individual applications. Nearly
200 were hired.
Agent BORDEN, of the Pennsylvan a
Line, was approached by some beach
walkers and asked if he would take
lack union men in case the strike was
declared off. He refused 70 recogn "a
the union in any way. He said the
strikers left without any grievances
and could never come back. He had
no doubt they we're willing to return,
as many were around in their working
clothes, apparently ready to take any
chance. Ia his opinion the backbone
of the strike was broken. At other
piers there are plenty of men at work
and many more are askin g for places.